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become a parent and you will This means nothing to me, sorry. a parent worth his salt will sacrifice himself to preserve his child man choose poorly...god said suffer the consequence...god sacrificed himself, as a man, to bear that consequence the father took a bullet for the child, a bullet the ch...

Dontaskme wrote: But why would any sane rational intelligent person choose to want that imposed upon the self? Immanuel Can Wrote: Nobody would choose it for himself. "For one will hardly die for a righteous person; though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die. But God demonstr...

The fact that one of their sources is a fantasist who pretended to be military intelligence to get attention, but was actually a car mechanic in the army ... that doesn't suggest they had a problematic evidentiary basis? poor character doesn't discredit fact It completely discredits the declaration...

if god exists, as a person, then, as I say elsewhere... if he wanted nuthin' but bio-automation -- robots -- then that's what he woulda created seems to me, since man is not a robot but instead is a free will, god wanted man to be free the bitch of it is: bein' free means bein' free to be wrong, to ...

obviously god thought the benefits of bein' a free will outweigh the liabilities[/i] Obviously mankind thinks it does, too. People have died for freedom -- not even for a freedom they themselves could be sure to enjoy, but that the freedoms and choices of others would not be taken away. And these p...

...equivocating humans with 'robots'. You're not familiar with the metaphorical use of the word "robot" to designate an entity that is mobile/function-performing but devoid of volition? :shock: Well, now you know it. Understanding the metaphor now, would you think it was better for God to make enti...

Well, yes. People who publish defamatory lies are often not the sort of people who publish a retraction just to correct the record like some sort of honest man would. So they publish them under duress, after their lawyers tell them their alternative is to lose in court because they have no evidence...

We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements. Having considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their request that we publish the following statement: reads less like mea c...

If god knew before hand what his life was like, would he want it, would he be ok with being tortured and humiliated? He did. “I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep...I lay down My life so that I may take it back. No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it do...

as I say, this... We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements. Having considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their request that we publish the following statement: ...r...

We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements. Having considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their request that we publish the following statement: reads less like mea c...

Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:34 am I was thinking about reading George Orwell's book 1984, then decided it would be quicker to look out of the window.

HA!

But influences and examples are not vague, for me. There are people in my life who were directly, not vaguely, influential for me . Really this is a fact you cannot reasonably deny not having privileged access to my soul. I wasn't "denying" that is was so. I was simply saying that if that were all ...

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. I asked Belinda but no response. I guess we all need to move over here now. I had completely forgotten about this board somehow. ..just on the low down, Belinda goes by the hacker name - codebute. Wintermute told me she took it down, because this site needed so...

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:21 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:11 pm

Sculptor wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 1:32 pm I've always found it far more useful to assume you are talking Bollux. It has nevver failed me yet.

Hey, Henry...at least I'm pretty sure you could spell "bollocks," no?

Apparently, that puts you ahead of some.

sure, but since I'm not a ponce like sculptor, I'd just say bullshit